The Documentary Podcast

BBC World Service

Topics: Documentary, Society & Culture

Transcribe the entire archive

Fetch every episode as speaker-labeled Markdown in one script:

curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://spoken.md/podcasts/73802620/episodes \
  | jq -r '.episodes[] | "\(.id) \(.title)"' \
  | while IFS=' ' read -r id title; do
      slug=$(echo "$title" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | tr -cs 'a-z0-9' '-' | sed 's/-*$//')
      [ -f "${id}-${slug}.md" ] && continue
      curl -s -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY" \
        -o "${id}-${slug}.md" \
        https://spoken.md/transcripts/$id
      sleep 0.34
    done

Each episode costs 1 credit. Already-saved files are skipped — safe to re-run after a top-up.

Example Transcripts

• The Sarkozy affair May 24, 2026

Any episode from this podcast is available via the API — get started.

curl -H "x-api-key: pt_demo" \
  https://spoken.md/transcripts/{episodeId}